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Fill me in. Prreferences? Actual experience which you like best? Price limit is for he rifle only, I have a leupold for it. Nosler, bergarra, ??? Others?
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Need more info.
Cartridge, purpose, etc. etc.
What fresh Hell is this?
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1700? Hands down have one built.
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1700? Hands down have one built. Agreed.
The 280 Remington is overbore.
The 7 Rem Mag is over bore.
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Buy a Tikka, take the other $900 and pay on a hunting trip.
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Purpose of the rife? Deer, Elk, Antelope, Varmint, Moose, Caribou, Bench Rest, Cottontails, Cast Bullets, 1,000 yard target, Bears, Buffalo, Lions, Hogs, self defense or what? What is your most critical criteria?
For $1,700 you could have just about any of these covered fairly well, but you couldn't cover them all with one rifle very well.
I'd bet most would prefer a bolt action for most of these applications.
I prefer classic. Semper Fi I used to run with the hare. Now I'm envious of the tortoise and I do my own stunts but rarely intentionally
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I've had good luck with Nosler rifles, and if you total up their features it's hard to have a rifle built for the same price--especially if you want a walnut stock. The MSRP for the Heritage is a little more than $1700, but not much. However, whether they have the features YOU want is another question. If you're into something a little more, uh, modern then the Ruger Precision Rifle is a deal.
Haven't tried a Bergara, but have shot a couple rifles with Bergara barrels, which were pretty good.
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You can find a really nice used Sauer 202 or wood stocked Steyr for that kind of money. It will be a tack driver with very fine fit,finish and function.
Lots of Sakos in that price range too.
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Buy a Tikka, take the other $900 and pay on a hunting trip. This and I assume it will be a hunting rifle. Id go a Kimber if I wanted lighter, gen purpose a M70 dropped into a McM or wood if you roll that way.
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Of the pricier new factory guns I have purchased in the last decade or so, my Sako 75 Finnlight 7mm-08 is easily my favorite. Had one in 243 I shoulda kept. The 7-08 has been in a McMillan Sako Hunter for a long time now.
Or go with a semi-custom..........
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Yeah, Sakos are very good. In fact one of the general trends in rifles as well as other products, such as optics, is less far less difference in performance between lower-priced products and what we've come to think of as top-of-the-line stuff, whether custom rifles or "alpha glass."
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I wouldn't use best in the same sentence as $1,700 in today's dollars. Strictly good enough of which there are many
Agreed it will buy quite a nice rifle along the Sako, Nosler or a custom to the extent of choosing an action, barrel and aftermarket stock for assembly. $2,500 would open a world more of choices including a nicer Nosler a really nice Weatherby or what have you.
Strictly as an academic exercise today I've been pleased in the long ago past with buying a nicer Remington or CDNN style Winchester Supergrade type and paying a willing gunsmith to check it out, blue print lightly, making sure the barrel and receiver are in line, the bolt is squared up the trigger is good and the scope mounts are square and centered. Take the existing stock if wood and slim it down while adjusting fit within limits. Time was there was a pretty good business in slimming the factory stocks especially on tang safety Rugers and on Sako's which responded well to a little wood removal.
Mr. Barsness and others have written a good deal on the value of proper fit. I haven't seen any ads for doing automotive body work to fit a hand laid composite stock but if there are such businesses that would be well worth it.
This amounts to taking a Remington 700 BDL and making it a CDL such as the factory used to tout along with their 40X and all the rest of it.
Maybe in today's world of CAD/CAM and Glock style center insert triggers that sort of additional handwork is passe.
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The wise choice would be a Tikka,spend the rest on a quality scope.
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Or, for $1700, you could buy 3 scoped rifle combos & go kill stuff !
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For $600 you get this.... I understand it doesn't feel like a fancy-dancy rifle...
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Check out the Remington 700 SPS.
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